Rate My Professor Kamran Iqbal

Kamran Iqbal, Ph.D., serves as Professor of Systems Engineering in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Aeronautical Engineering from NED University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi, Pakistan. He further obtained a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, a Master of Business Administration, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University. Iqbal joined the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in August 2000 as an Assistant Professor and progressed to Associate Professor and then full Professor by October 2015. He has held roles such as program coordinator for systems engineering and contributed to faculty senate committees and the graduate council.

Iqbal's research centers on neuro-mechanics and sensorimotor control of human movement, rehabilitation engineering, biomedical signal and image processing, and machine learning. His work explores biomechanical models for postural stability and control, muscle synergies in gait and upper limb motions, optimal control strategies for sit-to-stand movements, and applications in seizure detection and anemia prediction from images. He authored the textbook "A First Course in Control Systems" published by River Publishers in 2017, offering a unified approach to controller design applicable to electrical, mechanical, chemical, biomedical, and aeronautical engineering systems. Other key publications include "A First Course in Control System Design" (2022), "Control System Design in State-Space" (2022), "Mechanisms and models of postural stability and control" (2011), "Muscle Synergies Based Gait Phase Classification during Kinematically Constrained Walking on Slackline" (2020), and "Spectrogram Contrast Enhancement Improves EEG Signal-Based Emotional Classification" (2025). Iqbal is a member of IEEE, IET, BMES, ASEE, and Sigma Xi.